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clad

Pronunciation: /klæd/

The English word “clad” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
  2. Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
  3. Adorned, ornamented.

verb

  1. To clothe, to dress.
  2. To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).
  3. To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

Etymology

From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling,…

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